At a glance
- Roles
- Companion
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Prophetic Era
- Region
- Arabia
- Identifiers
- Wikidata
- Review
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Life in time
Refugees, migrants and diaspora
Place in the story
- CompanionTradition
Sunni (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Summary
In the hijra
When Quraysh asked her about her father she said: by God I do not know where my father is — and Abu Jahl struck her a blow that knocked her earring off 2 3.
She brought the Prophet ﷺ and her father their provisions when they set out from the cave; having forgotten to make the bundle a tie-strap, she split her waist-girdle in two — bound the bundle with one and girded herself with the other — and was named She of the Two Girdles 4 1.
Afterwards
She lived until her son Abdullah ibn al-Zubayr was killed in 73 AH, and died after him, past a hundred on the well-known account 5.
From Sheikh Omar Abdelkafy's lecture series Al Dinu Al Qayem
Sheikh Omar Abdelkafy recounts that Asma bint Abi Bakr (may God be pleased with her), about twelve years old, stood before her father, who struck her (needs_source) 6.
He recounts that Hajjaj crucified her son Abdullah ibn al-Zubayr for three days in the heat of Mecca (needs_source) 7.
Sheikh Omar Abdelkafy holds, as his own opinion, that children should be raised on the heritage of their forebears, and he names the family of al-Qa'qa' ibn Amr, calling Asma their grandmother 8.
Connections
- Child of
- Abu Bakr al-Siddiq· Qutayla bint Abd al-Uzza
- Member of
- The early Muslim community
- Participated in
- The Hijra
- Mentioned in
- Muwatta 156· Muwatta 510· Muwatta 604· Muwatta 2189· Muwatta 2721· Muwatta 1160· Muwatta 1163· Muwatta 910· Muwatta 919
People and things also explored
Hisham ibn Urwa· Muwatta, Book of Pilgrimage (hajj)· Aisha bint Abi Bakr· Abdullah ibn Abi Bakr· The Battle of Badr· The Hijra· Abu Ubayda ibn al-Jarrah· Muhammad
Sources
- Sahih al-Bukhari
- al-Raheeq al-Makhtum — Safi al-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri , p. 165
- al-Sira al-Nabawiyya — Ibn Hisham
- al-Raheeq al-Makhtum — Safi al-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri , p. 166
- al-Tabaqat al-Kubra — Ibn Sa'd
- Assabile archive of Omar Abdelkafy's lectures (audio and video) , Al Dinu Al Qayem, episode 11, at 00:13:00 · Listen at the archive (opens the audio at this time)
- Assabile archive of Omar Abdelkafy's lectures (audio and video) , Al Dinu Al Qayem, episode 11, at 00:17:30 · Listen at the archive (opens the audio at this time)
- Assabile archive of Omar Abdelkafy's lectures (audio and video) , Al Dinu Al Qayem, episode 11, at 00:45:00 · Listen at the archive (opens the audio at this time)
- Nisa' Hawl al-Rasul: Tarajim wa Qisas — al-Maktaba al-Asriyya
- Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi
- The Umayyad State — Bakr Muhammad Ibrahim Bakr (1st ed., Markaz al-Raya lil-Nashr wal-I'lam, Cairo 2002)
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islam.museum contributors. “Asma bint Abi Bakr”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/asma-bint-abi-bakr/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-25.